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YN-65 Ginkgo / Mastic
AN-46 Mastic

Ailanthus Class Net Laying Ship: Authorized as Ginkgo (YN-65); Renamed Mastic, 17 April 1943; Laid down as Mastic (YN-65), 27 November 1943, at Everett-Pacific Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Everett, WA; Reclassified a Net Laying Ship (AN-46), 20 January 1944; Launched, 19 May 1944; Commissioned USS Mastic (AN-46), 4 July 1944; Decommissioned, 1 March 1946 at Tiburon, CA.; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 6 June 1947, for delivery to her purchaser, William Semar.

Specifications: Displacement 1,100 t.(lt) 1,275 t.(fl); Length 194' 6"; Beam 37'; Draft 13' 6"; Speed 12.1kts; Complement 56, Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, three 20mm gun mounts; Propulsion, diesel electric, 2,500hp.
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